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This animation, from the CPRE, highlights that England hasn’t built enough genuinely affordable homes in rural or urban areas for decades. Following cuts to capital grant and financial restrictions on councils, we now rely on private developers to deliver a large share of new affordable homes through the Section 106 system. But since 2012, national planning rules have blunted this tool by enabling the widespread use and abuse of viability assessments.

Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance says: “for the Government to ensure the long term future of our Post Office network, they need to come through on their promise to make Post Offices the front line of Government”.